[SOLVED] 2 Threads, Irc connection on second thread, want first thread to tell thread to send a message

2 Threads, Irc connection on second thread, want first thread to tell thread to send a message

So I am writing an irc chat bot with a pygtk gui. This bot has its gui running on a loop in the main script. When I press a button on the gui it starts a thread which opens a socket and connect to a irc channel, when I press it again it pauses the thread, and when I press it yet again it resumes the thread.

Until here all good.

But I want it to when I press a button in the gui (main loop) to read a text box and tell the thread to send the text through the irc connection.

My problem is I can't get the main loop to tell the thread to send the text. I tried something like(to test it out):

def botSendMessage(button):
    thread.sendMessage(irc, "test")

handlers = {
"on_bot_send_button_clicked": botSendMessage,

}
builder.connect_signals(handlers)

Solution

I was alredy able to achieve what I was looking for. I used global variables.